Outside the Beltway

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

At least 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca are sitting in American facilities unused.

The job losses and hit to the service sector is well documented. But trade has radically shifted, too.

It’s easy if you try.

The fecklessness of U.S. human rights policy in full display.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

History has been made in more than one way.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

A look back at the last time there was a challenge to a slate of electors.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Most leaders ring up Joe.

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

A brief video that puts the US in broader context.

The data on Sweden and Covid-19 don’t fit the media narrative.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

A little comparative politics.

Some recommended reading.

Pondering lack of US interest in our friends to the south.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

There are different, and not equally good, reasons to talk about labels.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Our response to Covid-19 has been exceptional in all the wrong ways.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

One of these things is not like the others.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

A reckoning for 2500 Kosovar Serb civilians who were slaughtered is at hand.

Clips of recent police behavior reminded me far too much of scenes from authoritarian Latin America.

The architect of the plan admits he was wrong.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

Some global comparisons.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

Orban has used Covid-19 to kill whatever vestiges of democracy remained.

The PM and the Health Minister have both tested positve.

We are governed by the petty and myopic.

The 71-year-old heir to the British throne has tested positive and is in self-isolation.

Despite our poor showing against COVID-19, we have the best infrastructure in place.

He was the king of crossover hits long before Garth Brooks.

There’s very little upside.

There are two theories, neither of them good.

As if the country needed more turmoil.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

There’s nothing to see here, folks.

President Erdogan is playing a dangerous game.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

Because you needed one more thing to worry about.

Speaking of xenophobia.

We are truly exceptional in how we choose the president.

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

From the Freedom House “Freedom in the World 2019” report.